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Example sentences for: terrified

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The artist, looking either terrified or defiant, is peeling back a bandage to reveal the scars left by bullets from would-be assassin Valerie Solanas' gun.
"Emerging market" nations, terrified of capital flight, dare not reflate their economies; on the contrary, we find the front-line economy of the moment, Brazil, compelled by fear of speculators to act in a precisely anti-Keynesian fashion: increasing interest rates, raising taxes, and cutting spending even as the economy slides into a nasty recession.
They will never meet 42-year-old Tranh Tran and her cash-strapped Westminster family, never hug the terrified 70-year-old woman who has just been evicted and never personally comfort the battered women seeking divorces but petrified of losing their immigration status.
Then, one afternoon, during a celebratory picnic in the countryside near Oxford, they hear a shout of distress: A middle-aged man is entangled in one of the anchoring lines of an enormous hot-air balloon while his passenger, a terrified child, is unsuccessfully attempting to escape from the basket.
Congress, terrified of Social Security, refuses to do anything at all.